Knight, Garry. 2. Part two of interview about Shoe Cove.

• Main Author: Bateman, Shannon
• Other Authors: Knight, Garry
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: Work; Spaziano; Jim; Odenthal; Larry; Camaratta; Ed; Fever; Linda; Codner; Payne; Knight; Owen; Doug; Lince; Bill; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8696

Garry Knight continues describing his experiences working at the satellite tracking station in Shoe Cove from Silver Threads in Pouch Cove. 00:00 – introductions; 0:22 – NASA tracking station; National Research Council; portable station arriving by ship; 1:51 – operating dates; joint project with Russia and United States; Apollo Soyuz; Sky Lab; 4:37 – starting work in logistics department; powerhouse engineering; responsibilities; 7:32 – local personnel; American staff and economic impacts; 9:36 – Americans marrying local women; Jim Spaziano; working relationships; 11:12 – station commander Larry Odenthal; Ed Camaratta; departments; 12:10 – female employees; Linda Fever; Ethel Codner; 12:50 – operations; construction; being deactivated; 13:32 – describing site layout; 15:10 – communicating with astronauts on moon; 16:55 – non stop operations during missions; workplace stress; 19:00 – mood during missions; 20:08 – generator accident; rebuilding generator; 24:45 – confidentiality; visitors to station; 26:15 – communicating with other stations; locations worldwide; 28:26 – station being deactivated; caring for station during transition; 29:20 – Canadian government purchasing station; Department of Mines and Energy; Memorial University’s C-CORE; NORDCO; 31:05 – assembling mechanical equipment; antennae specialist; tracking ice flows; forestry; explaining function of satellite; 35:02 – specialist skill; explaining antennae; workplace culture; 38:00 – operating dates; federal politics and closure; 40:10 – local opposition to closure; song by Jim Payne; 42:29 – station closing; Lion’s Club taking over property; 43:45 – career after closure; construction equipment business; 44:54 – uncle and cousins Owen Knight and Doug Knight working at station; friends; unique experience; 46:58 – American friends; experiences in Newfoundland; Bill Lince.